A small house key hung from a piece of string.

“Mommy says I can’t lose this.”

Paramedic James had come into the emergency department with the responding crew.

He had been given the report and the location details the staff had gathered.

He saw the child holding the key as though it were the last thing she had not yet handed to someone else.

He crouched in front of her.

“Can I borrow it so we can go help her?”